Class of 2014: Waitlisted

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<p>Wait list and yield information form the class of 2013:</p>

<p>[Class</a> of 2013 Yield Falls Despite Huge Increase in Number of Applications - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html]Class”>http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html)</p>

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<p>So I haven’t posted on this site in a while, but I saw this thread and felt compelled to reply.</p>

<p>I was one of those applicants that was accepted off the waitlist last year, to my total surprise. I had originally paid my deposit at UPenn and was all ready to go there. I had no thought in my mind that MIT would call anyone off the waitlist, let alone if it was me.</p>

<p>It may be really tough for all of you waitlistees right now, but my best advice is to hang on until April 1, and assess your options at that point. Trust me, you’ll be so involved in deciding between your available options that all the stress you’re feeling about the waitlist right now will completely be erased from your mind.</p>

<p>I hadn’t checked the MIT Admissions Blog on the week of the waitlist decisions, so I was completely shocked when I checked my email while I was driving home one day. Needless to say (since this is the MIT forum), shortly thereafter, I accepted MIT’s offer and withdrew from Penn’s.</p>

<p>But I’d just like to emphasize that you all have accomplished something that many people would kill to have. Being waitlisted from MIT proves the strength of your application and your academic merit. Sit back and relax until April 1, and expect to hear a lot of good news. </p>

<p>If anyone has any questions (about MIT, the waitlist, or otherwise) feel free to ask.</p>

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<p>@bmehopeful Thank you for your post!</p>

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<p>anyone know where i can find my mit applicant ID #? I want to email the admissions office about some stuff but I don’t know what my ID # is.</p>

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<p>It should be fine if you list your name, your high school, and your birthdate.</p>

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<p>K thanks a lot</p>

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Wait… maybe I’m just being stupid here, but why would colleges expect higher yields when they have more applicants? Wouldn’t this just mean that the applicants have more colleges to choose from, leading to lower yields?</p>

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<p>^ yes</p>

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<p>I guess I should be more precise: Yes, I’d think it would result it lower yields (so, no, I don’t think you’re being stupid)</p>

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<p>@Hanflebears and @STMoore I agree,it would result in lower yields that is why the WL is larger, last year was around 500 this year is around 700. IF the yield is lower they will take people off the WL. WE HOPE! :)</p>

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<p>MIt has a great fin. aid policy, it will have a high yield.</p>

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<p>@DMOC We have a chance! Please see the article below
Information from last year’s class. </p>

<p>Class of 2013 Yield Falls Despite Huge Increase in Number of Applications</p>

<p>“MIT’s yield fell for the class of 2013: 64 percent of students accepted MIT’s offer of admission, down from 66 percent for the class of 2012 and from a record high of 69 percent for the class of 2011.”</p>

<p>[Class</a> of 2013 Yield Falls Despite Huge Increase in Number of Applications - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html]Class”>http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N35/yield.html)</p>

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<p>Also take into account that MIT will be increasing our financial aid budget by 6.7% accompanied with an increase in tuition by 3% (although the increase in financial aid outpaces the increase in tuition, therefore actually making it MORE affordable to MORE people).</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/financial-aid.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/financial-aid.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>How many originally wait-listed students chose to get off the wait list for Class of 2013?</p>

<p>How large was the wait-list after the April “do you want to stay on the wait list?” (acc. to MIT website: 455) for Class of 2013?</p>

<p>How many students chose not to go to MIT Class of 2013?</p>

<p>How many students are in the Class of 2013?
Like, how much room is in this inelastic number that they choose will be the class size? </p>

<p>That way we can estimate how many they will take off the wait-list.</p>

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<p>Also, keep in mind that many students will not elect to stay on the waitlist, i am sure many waitlisted will get into HYPS, be happy and too lazy to submit additional letters (as I would be) and decline their spot…that should whittle it down quite a bit</p>

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<p>Feliz, YEAH!!! :slight_smile: Man I am so hoping that HYPS accepts all the people who got in MIT. :)</p>

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<p>Hi everyone! This is from Matt McGann, our Associate Director of Admissions: </p>

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<p>D got her WL card today. She will stay on the WL. Should she sent it certified mail?</p>

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It is absolutely impossible to estimate how many they will take off the wait-list.</p>

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<p>MITChris: “A letter, a phone call, notes from people who know you well… these are good things to provide.”</p>

<p>Does a letter from a teacher who already wrote a rec for the application help? My wait-listed S has begun an independent study of number theory for the 2nd semester at school with the Math teacher who wrote him a rec for his MIT EA app. I think she is able to provide information about my S’s recent progress in Math.</p>